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Anthropic employees accuse Trump administration of targeting them

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> We’re proposing stronger regulation of the technology. We’re proposing giving the government the ability to, again in a narrow way, block deployment of unsafe technology.

Anthropic CEO https://abc7.com/post/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-calls-stron...

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Anthropic declares: "Mythos is too dangerous too release to the public" Proceeds to release Mythos plus safety guardrails as Fable. Amazon removes guardrails from Fable, getting access to Mythos. Government takes Anthropic's word for it and tells them to pull it until the guardrails can't be removed. They refuse. Government forces them.

Yeah if you ignore the fact the Us government retaliating about Anthropic not wanting their AIs in weapons systems.

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Anthropic declares: "Mythos is too dangerous too release to the public" Proceeds to release Mythos plus safety guardrails as Fable. Amazon removes guardrails from Fable, getting access to Mythos. Government takes Anthropic's word for it and tells them to pull it until the guardrails can't be removed. They refuse. Government forces them.

Amazon did not remove any guardrails from Fable.

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Anthropic declares: "Mythos is too dangerous too release to the public" Proceeds to release Mythos plus safety guardrails as Fable. Amazon removes guardrails from Fable, getting access to Mythos. Government takes Anthropic's word for it and tells them to pull it until the guardrails can't be removed. They refuse. Government forces them.

Was Fable really the full Mythos model but with guardrails added? I had assumed Fable had a reduced parameter count or something, like a Sonnet to an Opus. Interesting!

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Unfortunately saying it in the press is going to make it even harder for them in the current environment. I know this administration gets non-trivial support from the valley, but what to most outsiders seems like "targeting businesses based on personal vibes" is going to do long-term harm to the U.S. I hope those who represent technology in government, especially the AI head David Sacks are giving this due considerat…

Ah the good old “stop resisting” falacy

Re: Anthropic employees accuse Trump administration of targeting them

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Anthropic employees are right, but maybe this is for good. It certainly has opened my eyes.

I can’t rely on using a technology that the US administration can ban at will.

IMO without getting into personal thoughts about how capable the current US administration is, last Friday move sent a very powerful signal to the industry.

Also I don’t think China releasing so many good models, capable to compete with Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5, all at once, is a coincidence.

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